19681
The best WebAssembly runtime may be no runtime
When we think “a fast AOT WebAssembly compiler and runtime”, we typically think about V8, Wasmer, WasmEdge or Wasmtime.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,235 posts.
19682
The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar
This post has been languishing in my drafts folder for about a decade. It has recently become relevant again. When I was at Vodafone, selling ringtones was our top priority. They cost almost nothing to produce, supply, and market. Yet people would pay through the nose for them. I say people. I mean kids. We saw a huge…
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Questions to ask at the end of a technical interview (2017)
A comprehensive list of useful questions to ask the interviewer a the end of a technical interview.
19685
How to Become a Bad Developer
Discover the most efficient way to not succeed as a developer.
19686
Cheap DIY solar fence design
A year ago I installed a 4 kilowatt solar fence . I'm revisiting it this Sun Day , to share the design, now that I have prooved it out.
19687
Always use [closed, open) intervals
fhur's blog
19688
The largest city in each 10x10 degree latitude/longitude box
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
19689
Who exactly needs to get approval from an institutional review board (IRB)?
IRB you kidding me?
19690
Austral: A systems language with linear types and capabilities
Introducing a new programming language.
19691
Stepping Away from Sass
My latest site redesign and why I left out Sass and media queries in favour of native CSS grid, calc, viewport units and custom properties.}
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Amazon Prime members buy twice as much, don't compare on price
Removing friction is critical to increasing e-commerce conversion and shipping costs play a big part. That's why Amazon's Prime program generates big results by...
19695
How I tried to compete with YouTube and Google with Livevideo.com
Learn how Google kills competition through anti-competitive behavior. This is the true story of how I tried to compete with YouTube and Google with two of the former founders of Myspace between 2006-2008 on a startup called LiveVideo.com. Some old files I found related to LiveVideo.com: Automated Transcript: 00:05 You…
19696
Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have
Plain text is portable, inspectable, searchable, easy to back up, and remarkably resistant to obsolescence. Its simplicity has helped it survive decades of...
19697
ECC RAM should be a human right
I am now a staunch advocate for ECC RAM, after the events of last week. You see, over the last several weeks my main desktop workstation has been misbehaving, with occasional freezing and crashing. After some diagnostics I began to suspect a faulty RAM module, and sure enough, upon performing a quick run of memtest86…
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Formal Methods: Just Good Engineering Practice? (2024)
Earlier this week, I did the keynote at TLA+ conf 2024 ( watch the video or check out the slides ). My message in the keynote was something I have believed to be true for a long time: formal methods are an important part of good software engineering practice. If you’re a software engineer, especially one working on…
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The single most important criteria when replacing GitHub
I could write a lot of things about the Github acquisition by Microsoft. About Github's embrace and extend of git, and how it passed unnoticed by people who now fear the same thing now that Microsoft is in the picture. About the stultifying effects of Github's centralization, and its retardant effect on general…
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Pre-2022 Books
I noticed that I seem to, subconsciously, gravitate towards books published on or before 2022, and somewhat discount books published after, especially from authors I haven’t heard of.
19701
Using the HTML5 Fullscreen API for Phishing Attacks
Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer security researcher, teacher, web developer, designer, long distance runner, gamer, music lover, and builder of websites that (sometimes) go viral.
19702
Rust vs. C++: Fine-grained Performance
If Rust is to take on work previously reserved to C++, we need to know how well it does what C++ does best. What’s fast, what’s slow? What’s harder to do, what’s easier? I wouldn’t know how to look up answers for those questions, but I can write programs.
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The Big Data Brain Drain: Why Science is in Trouble
Update, August 2014: see Hacking Academia , my most recent reflection on this subject.
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setBigTimeout
setTimeout breaks after 25 days. setBigTimeout doesn't.
19706
Problems once solved by a metaclass can be solved by __init_subclass__
David Beazley on Twitter said:
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Linux Certificate Authority root stores have a too simple view of 'trust'
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
19709
Apple Censoring the News App
Yesterday Apple announced News+, “ an immersive magazine and news reading experience ”. This immersive experience is, for now, a US/Canada only product, with Apple noting: “Available in the US and Canada, Apple News+ presents the best and most relevant articles to meet any range of interests from renowned publications…
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